How to utilise recursive chown

This guide explains how to utilise recursive chown. Recursive chown is useful if you want to change the permissions for all the sub-directories and files inside a directory.

Follow the steps-

1. For a recursive operation, use the -R flag.
2. Here is an example-
   chown -R [USER][:GROUP] Directory
3. We will take the TestPermissions directory and set latestowner as its owner recursively-
   chown -R latestowner /home/TestPermissions/
4. Now, every file and folder inside the TestPermissions directory will be owned by the user’s latestowner.

In this manner, you can utilise recursive chown for changing the permissions for all the sub-directories and files inside a directory. For further assistance, get in touch with our support team.

Explore more about file ownership commands by checking out our post on How to use chown to check the current file ownership.